Socket for incandescent electric lamps.



A. c. BECKER. SOCKET FOR INGANDBSGENT ELECTRIC LAMPS.

APPLICATION IILED '0OT. 27,1913.

1,104,93 1. Patented July 2351914 citizen of the United States, residing Oakville, in the county of Lit-chfield and candescent Electric Lamps; and I do hereby electric lamp socketv constructed in accord- UNI ED STATES PATENT OFFICE ADOLEH C. BECKER, OE OAKVILLE, GONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WATERBURY MFG.

. 60., 0F WATE RBUBY, CONN EGTICUT, A CORPORATION.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Anorrn G. 11120111212, 2. at

State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sockets for Indeclare the following-when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the, characters of --reference marked thereon, to be a vfull, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of vthis application, and represent, in--.-

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re 1' aside view of an incandescent ance with my invention. Fig. 2 a view at right angles tovFig. 1, with the upper end ofthe socket in sect-ion. Fig. 3 a-view sim1- lar to Fig. 2, illustrating a modified form of my invention. r

This invention relates to an improvement in sockets for incandescent electric lamps,

and particularly to sockets which areprovidedwith an eye adapted to be connected with the end of the chain insuspension fixtures. In the more general construction of these sockets, these eyes or loops are formed from cast metal and provided with a screw threaded hollow stem adapted to be screwed into a turned metal neck which is connected with the cap of the socket.

The object of this invention is to formthe neck of the socket from sheet metal and In carrying'out my invention, I form the neck 2 from sheet metal either integral with the cap of an ordinary socket 4, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, or separate therefrom and connected with the cap as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. This neck being SO OKE'I. FOB INCANDESGENT ELECTRIC LAMPS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 28, 1914, Application filed fictober 27, 1913. Serial No. 797,522.

fixture. The internal flange -dis somewhat smaller in diameter than the diameter of the neck itself so asto leavev an annular space between them, and this'space provides for the entrance to a sufiicient degree of the ends of-the ringto firmly connect the ring with the neck, and furthermore, the flange so nearly covers the ends of the ring that electric wires passing into the socket will not be frayed by the ends of the ring, and the internal flange provid'es smooth surface facilitating the "socket.

I claim j 1. A socket for incandescent electric lamps having-a sheet metal neck formed on opposite sides with openings and provided the-'entranceof the wires into with an integral inwardly extending flange forming an opening through the neck, said flange extending beyond the upper edge of the said openings, and a split ring the ends of which are inserted into said openings.

2. A socket having a neck formed integral with the cap, said neck formed with openings on opposite sides and with an integral, inwardly extending flange smaller in di ameter than the diameter of the neck forming an opening through the neck, the lower edge of the said flange extending beyond the upper edge of the said openings, and a ring the ends of which are inserted into said openings.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ADOLPH G. BECKER.

Witnesses J OHN S. NnAoLn, IQATHERINE M. BROWN. 

